Patterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2015
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 560 So. 2d 148 - Schmitt v. State · Insured Savings & Loan Assn. v. State, Ex Rel. Patterson · 556 So. 2d 1059 - Moore v. Ruth · 635 So. 2d 813 - Lanier v. State · 429 So. 2d 262 - Davis v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The [plea bargain] provision providing for life without parole was not a permissible option provided by the legislature ... thus, the court had no authority to issue such a sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.